Failed presidential searches are a nightmare for all involved. For the university, it means going back to the drawing board. For the candidate, it’s time and energy spent in vain.
On the Sunday before last Christmas, a ransom note suddenly appeared in computer printer trays at Lincoln College in Illinois.
The connection between a student’s ability to pay for college and successfully earn a degree is well established. Federal and state grant and loan programs and institutional need-based scholarships have been the central strategy to provide access, regardless of family income, to our country’s colleges and universities for many decades.
Governing boards must actively work to ensure fair student outcomes, say two leaders at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.